Inequality and Growth in Modern China

Guanghua Wan

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Comprehensive coverage of topics relating to inequality and poverty in China
Utilizes alternative data sets to produce roboust and reliable policy recommendations
Discusses the impact of increasing inequality in China on the global economy, and specifically the US and EU

Inequality and Growth in Modern China

Guanghua Wan

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Description

This volume provides comprehensive updated coverage of inequality and poverty issues in China. Some of the methodologies developed herein are published for the first time and may be used in other contexts and for other countries. The use of different data sources and state-of-art research techniques ensures that the findings and conclusions can be substantiated and that the policy recommendations are reliable and robust. Contributors to this volume are renowned experts in their respective areas, including, notably, Justin Lin, Xing Meng, Kai-yuen Tsui, and Guanghua Wan. For these reasons, those with an interest in income distribution in general and China's development in particular, will find this volume essential reading.

Rapidly rising inequality in China has contributed to the sluggishness of domestic demand and emerging poverty. It has thus exerted considerable pressure for commodity exports and represents a root cause of increased trade disputes. These have profound ramifications for the US, EU, and other economies, and the international business community. Consequently, economists and sociologists, among others, are increasingly focused upon inequality and poverty issues in China and relevant policy implications.

This volume, arising from a two-year UNU-WIDER project, addresses issues that include the inequality-growth relationship, regional/personal variation in incomes and human well-being such as education, the determinants of inequality and poverty or their changes, gaps in innovation capability, and the role played by China's development strategies in affecting inequality.

Inequality and Growth in Modern China

Guanghua Wan

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Foreword, Anthony Shorrocks
Introduction, Guanghua Wan
1:The inequality-growth nexus in the short and long run: empirical evidence from China, Guanghua Wan, Ming Lu, and Zhao Chen
2:Income inequality in China and its influencing factors, Xiaolu Wang
3:Poverty reduction in China: trends and causes, Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan
4:Development strategies and regional income disparities in China, Justin Yifu Lin and Peilin Liu
5:Forces shaping China's interprovincial inequality, Kai-yuen Tsui
6:Financial Development, Growth and Regional Disparity in Post-Reform China, Zhicheng Liang
7:Spatial convergence in China: 1952-99, Patricio Aroca, Dong Guo, and Geoffrey J. D. Hewings
8:China's regional inequality in innovation capability, 1995-2004, Peilei Fan and Guanghua Wan
9:Widening gap of educational opportunity? A longitudinal study of educational inequality in China, Min-Dong Paul Lee
10:Poverty accounting by factor components: With an empirical illustration using Chinese data, Guanghua Wan

Inequality and Growth in Modern China

Guanghua Wan

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Author Information

Guanghua Wan, Senior Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER

Contributors:

Patricio Aroca, Professor and Head of IDEAR at Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
Zhao Chen, Professor of Economics at China Centre for Economic Studies (CCES), Fudan University, China
Peilei Fan, Assistant Professor at the Urban and Regional Planning Program, Michigan State University
Dong Guo, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, Director of REAL
Min-Dong Paul Lee, Assistant Professor of Management at the University of South Florida
Zhicheng Liang, Université d'Auvergne, France
Justin Yifu Lin, Professor and the founding Director of the China Centre for Economic Research, Peking University, China
Peilin Liu, Associate Research Fellow of Department of Development Strategy and Regional Economy, Development Research Centre of the State Council, China
Ming Lu, Associate Professor of Economics at Fudan University, China
Anthony Shorrocks
Kai-yuen Tsui, Professor of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Guanghua Wan, Senior Research Fellow and Project Director at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Xiaolu Wang, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow of National Economic Research Institute, China Reform Foundation
Yin Zhang, Lecturer in Economics at the School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee

Inequality and Growth in Modern China

Guanghua Wan

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Reviews and Awards

"The book is a valuable read for scholars concerned with the relatonship bewteen economic growth and inequality. This book is timely because the rapid growth of inequality in China has caused domestic demand to diminish and poverty to expand." - Yaping Zhou, China Quarterly, vol 198 06/09